Road from Kyoto: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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... Baseline , Congressional Research Service , Library of Congress , CRS Report 98-235 ENR , March 11 , 1998 David M. Ackerman , Global Climate Change : Selected Legal Ques- tions About the Kyoto Protocol , Congressional Research Service ...
... Baseline , Congressional Research Service , Library of Congress , CRS Report 98-235 ENR , March 11 , 1998 David M. Ackerman , Global Climate Change : Selected Legal Ques- tions About the Kyoto Protocol , Congressional Research Service ...
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... baseline levels . So , our competitors are taking on similar - and in the case of Europe , greater - obligations than are we . When changes in the accounting rules for the gases and offsets for sinks - which I'll de- scribe in a minute ...
... baseline levels . So , our competitors are taking on similar - and in the case of Europe , greater - obligations than are we . When changes in the accounting rules for the gases and offsets for sinks - which I'll de- scribe in a minute ...
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... baseline levels ( 1990 and 1995 ) of greenhouse gas emissions , with the United States agreeing to a 7 % reduction . When changes in the accounting rules for certain gases and offsets for activities that absorb carbon dioxide are ...
... baseline levels ( 1990 and 1995 ) of greenhouse gas emissions , with the United States agreeing to a 7 % reduction . When changes in the accounting rules for certain gases and offsets for activities that absorb carbon dioxide are ...
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... baseline for the three synthetic greenhouse gasses from 1990 to 1995 accounts for about 1 % of the 7 % reduction . Use of these three gases has grown since 1990 , so that permitting a 1995 baseline allows for a higher overall baseline ...
... baseline for the three synthetic greenhouse gasses from 1990 to 1995 accounts for about 1 % of the 7 % reduction . Use of these three gases has grown since 1990 , so that permitting a 1995 baseline allows for a higher overall baseline ...
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... baseline would be lowered by carbon - absorbing activities , but under the method agreed in Kyoto , such activities do not lower the 1990 baseline . Because the 1990 level baseline is thus higher under the Kyoto agreement , the U.S. ...
... baseline would be lowered by carbon - absorbing activities , but under the method agreed in Kyoto , such activities do not lower the 1990 baseline . Because the 1990 level baseline is thus higher under the Kyoto agreement , the U.S. ...
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Page 750 - A State is obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty...
Page 630 - States should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to economic growth and sustainable development in all countries, to better address the problems of environmental degradation.
Page 141 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 646 - AUTHENTIC TEXTS The original of this Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Page 405 - Forest land: Land at least 10 percent occupied by forest trees of any size or formerly having had such tree cover and not currently developed for nonforest use. Lands developed for nonforest use...
Page 646 - ... 2. For each State or regional economic integration organization that ratifies, accepts or approves the Convention or accedes thereto after the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession...
Page 126 - A State may, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, formulate a reservation unless : (a) the reservation is prohibited by the treaty; (b) the treaty provides that only specified reservations, which do not include the reservation in question, may be made; or (c) in cases not falling under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), the reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty.
Page 588 - The text of any proposed amendment to this Convention or to any protocol, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol, shall be communicated to the Parties by the secretariat at least six months before the meeting at which it is proposed for adoption.
Page 634 - Parties with economies that are highly dependent on income generated from the production, processing and export, and/or consumption of fossil fuels and associated energy-intensive products and/or the use of fossil fuels for which such Parties have serious difficulties in switching to alternatives.
Page 17 - ... the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.